Re: Clear Documents From RECENTS in Finder/Favorites/Sidebar

On 7/5/24 4:45 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-07-05 13:36, Colour Sergeant Bourne wrote:

On 7/4/24 5:16 PM, Your Name wrote:

On 2024-07-04 17:28:59 +0000, Colour Sergeant Bourne said:

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I’m unable to clear 1,000+ document files from
Finder/Favorites/Recents in the Sidebar on my fully updated M3
iMac
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I’ve tried Apple Icon/Recent Items/Clear Menu with no joy. Recent
folders and apps clear but not the document files.
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I’ve tried Finder/Go/Recents, or just clicking Recents from the
sidebar, but don’t see any way to Clear the document files.
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I can select the documents in the Recent folder and hit Move to
Trash, or drag them there, and while that clears them from the
Recents folder, it also deletes them from their original
location-- and I don't want to do that.
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So....how to clear (not delete) documents from the Recents Folder?

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The "Recents" folder is basically just a system-made "smart
folder", so the files listed there are not taking up any extra
space and you cannot clear them. It's another useless and buggy
gimmick Apple added to overbloat MacOS.
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The easiest option is to just ignore it and turn it off in the
Finder Preferences / remove it from the Finder windows' sidebar.
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If you really need such a feature, you would be better off making
your own "smart" folder to list files opened within the last X days
so that you can define the timeframe.
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It's more a privacy thing-- not wanting an easily available record
of every file I've ever opened...

 
Privacy from whom, exactly?

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You know...them ;-)